Chocolarder Easter egg – Smooth Orange Peel Dark 68%

Description

Tasting Notes: Sweet, tart orange melting into sweet marzipan and brandy notes with a brownie finish

Chocolarder’s ethical Easter eggs are back, and they’re going even further in 2022 with this Easter egg made using waste orange peel from their local beach café and packaged completely plastic free. Every week, the staff at Gylly Beach Café squeeze gallons of fresh juice leaving the peel! They then turn the peel into a bright orange chocolate that carries a light and buttery-smooth citrus flavour. Combined with their Gola dark chocolate, the two compliment each other perfectly to create a chocolate orange experience unlike any you’ve ever tasted.

The cacao beans for the dark chocolate were grown under the canopy of Sierra Leone’s Gola Rainforest National Park. Various Charities, including RSPB, have been working with local farmers to grow the cacao in harmony with the park, preventing deforestation.

The Gola Rainforest

The Gola Forest is one of only two national parks in Sierra Leone, referred to as the ‘green diamond of the nation’. A remnant of the Upper Guinean Tropical Rainforest, it is home to over 330 bird species, of which 14 now face global extinction.

The Gola Rainforest project is providing a livelihood and income for farmers around the national park while helping them to protect the rainforest from deforestation. Growing cocoa isn’t an easy task, and harvesting the pods can only be done by hand when grown under the canopy of the rainforest, hence the destruction of nearly all of Ghana’s rainforest when they opted for easy harvesting, leaving devastation.

The project has been supporting farmers to harvest, ferment and dry their cocoa beans to the best quality to yield higher prices from chocolate makers around the world.

The rainforest is home to many endangered species including forest elephants, pygmy hippos and chimpanzees.